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Book Reviews

Book Review: Slightly Wicked by Mary Balogh

Aside from one very unfortunate “horseback riding” scene, Mary Balogh has delivered yet another winner. I love her books (so far without exception), and Simply Wicked was great. With wonderful writing, fully-developed characters, and a plot ...
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Book Review: Slightly Married by Mary Balogh

We begin on the battlefield in Toulouse, year 1814. Colonel Lord Aidan Bedwyn surveys the carnage; he’s very grim, very stoic, very cold. Not the military man you want to mess with, for sure. Also he’s probably not your ideal pick for Romantic ...
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Book Review: Notorious Pleasures by Elizabeth Hoyt

I feel like the highlight of Notorious Pleasures is absolutely its anti-hero, Lord Griffin. I dug his character. He was a nice spin on the “sympathetic rakehell” persona. I was a little disappointed that Hoyt didn’t manage something similar with ...
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Book Review: Wilde in Love by Eloisa James

The year is 1778, and Willa Ffynche has just finished her first season. An unrivaled success, she received 14 proposals through her cunning plan to act exactly the way men expect their wives to—simpering, ingratiating, only slightly intelligent, ...
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Book Review: Comanche Moon by Catherine Anderson

If Comanche Moon is the best that Native American romance has to offer, then I’m happy to have read it. (Also worried, because it can only go down from here, right?) I like the way Catherine Anderson writes, and I feel that she did as well with ...
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